They spoke just above a whisper. “How long do we have to wait?”
“Shhh!” answered her older brother. “Just wait. Be patient. They’ll come, I promise you.”
Missy sighed, bursting with impatience as the sun slowly, ever so slowly, sank beneath the horizon. “Now, Jimmy?”
“Not quite. Just a few more minutes. It has to be almost dark. You know, DARK dark.”
MIssy’s eyes caught a sparkle Then another, and another; blinking, drifting, blinking.
“Ah, here they come!” Jimmy’s voice rose with glee..
“Fairies?”
“No, Silly. Lightening bugs. Fireflies.”
“They’re grand, Jimmy. Like fairies.”
“Well, okay.”
Just Writing! 
Let her have her dreams Jimmy 😉
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I genuinely believed it was going to be something supernatural, and then turned out to be something perfectly natural. Clever twist. 😊
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Thanks. And I hope that little girl continues to believe in fairies for a long time to come. 🙂
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Fairies and faeries aren’t so dependable. They can’t be expected to appear to just any kid. Fireflies and lightning bugs, though, always get around to everyone
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Yes, good observation. Fairies tease; fireflies please 🙂
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A very beautiful story this week. Fireflies are a mainstay of summer evenings. haven’t seen many this summer, though. think the cold winter got them.
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I never tired of watching for them when I was a kid. I see that again in my grandkids, but they’re not as enthralled as they were when they were little.
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Hubby gets a kick out of watching me try to capture one.
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Well done, Linda. Sounds so true-to-life.
And a more benign adventure than the one involving two Dutch siblings. The elder convinced his younger brother that, to be a real Dutchman, he had to eat a spider sandwich. Didn’t end well. 😦
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Eeeeewww!! Nasty. I hope the older brother got his comeuppance!
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They were climbing down the ladder from their barn hayloft and the younger was feeling all those spider legs wiggling in his tummy. He threw up and big brother was right below. 😉
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Perfect 🙂
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Fairies are cool.
And Jimmy might not know everything…
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Fairies sound better to me. One of the things that I liked about living in Ohio better than New Hampshire is the fireflies. We get some, but not anything like where I grew up…
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Minnesota for me. Lots and lots of fai—um, fireflies 🙂
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Your lovely story made me smile. You’ve expressed the enchantment of children so well.
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Thanks, Margarisa. Sometimes I love going back into a childhood view of things. More innocent, more fun, more imagination 🙂
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You’re welcome, Linda. Ahh… those days of carefree fun! 🙂
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Who’s to say fireflies aren’t the faerie folk?
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I don’t know. Maybe they can be whatever we want them to be 🙂
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I always loved June when the junebugs, as we called them, lit up the yard. We would catch them in jars and they would light up our bedroom. We were too young to know it wasn’t good for the bugs.
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Dear Linda,
This made me think of summer nights of childhood. Fireflies were part of the magic. Nicely written.
Shalom,
Rochelle
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They absolutely were magical, Rochelle. Thank you so much.
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Aww…. I love this! And … yes, it can be so VERY hard to wait … AND, I think they ARE fairies. It is only that if you catch them they transmute into fire-flies because they have to keep the fairy-beings a secret. It’s the version a five-year-old I know swears by, and I believe her. 🙂
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who knows? fireflies can actually be fairies in disguise. 🙂
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So pretty. I hope the girl grows up still believing 😀.
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My granddaughter laughed at me when I said I believed in fairies. Kids aint what they used to be!
Here’s my story.
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A sweet story with heartwarming dialogue, Linda. Missy finally got that fairy bit in there, didn’t she? Jimmy should have known better. Well done. Thanks for the delightful film clip. 🙂 — Suzanne
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It sounds worth waiting to see, fairies or no 🙂
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And why can’t fireflies be fairies in disguise?
This was a lovely story, Linda.
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They can be anything you want them to be, right? mThanks, Dale.
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Absolutely!
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Aahhhh … this reminded me of when my kids loved catching them in Mason jars.
Thanks for the memories, Linda. I always thought they were fairies. Who else can glow like that?
Nice story ….
Isadora 😎 👍🏻
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we did it when I was a kid, and my children and grandchildren have all done it. We just don’t allow them to keep the firefly for more than a few minutes, because we wanted them to know the fun was in the catching, not in keeping it captured.
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I grew up in the city. No fairies flying about for me to catch. I loved when we moved to the country when I got married. It was a very different way of life for me and my children.
: ) 😎
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Good one, Linda. He’s a nice big brother.
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Thanks 🙂
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YW
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This is beautiful!
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Thank you 🙂
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This reminds me of the very first time I saw fireflies, which was when we were living in Germany in the nineties. I’d honestly never seen them before – magnificent. You took me back to the magic.
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They really are magic 🙂 Thanks, Sandra.
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Sometimes reality is better than fantasy. Fireflies are a beautiful natural phenomenon. I can see this playing out in neighborhoods all over the world.
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Yes. Children love them, but I’m a granny and I’m still just as fascinated as ever 🙂
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Nice little twist there! Was also expecting the supernatural!
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Oh, I simply love your writing. You have such a wonderful gift. I love reading your posts on your different blogs. I love to write, but I think I get too serious sometimes, and then I get writers block. I really need to take time, now that we are moved and settled in, to do daily prompts. I know that helps.
Like someone above said, I thought this was going to be something out of this world, but just love how it was about the lightning bugs.
Thanks for sharing your gift.
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Thank you so much! I love Friday Fictioneers. Anyone is welcome, so feel free to jump right in 🙂
I used to do a daily prompt, but I just don’t always have the time for it these days. It’s good, though, to get your muse awake and functioning 🙂
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Oh I believe I could actually do that I will have to look up Friday Fictioneers. You seem to be having a lot of fun with it. 😉
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I liked the way you made us wait for the sun to set and the twilight to deepen before we could see the fairies. Every true quest involves patience. Sweet story, Linda!
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Thanks, Penny.
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